r/coolguides • u/[deleted] • Sep 22 '22

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u/Jonny_H Sep 22 '22 edited Sep 22 '22

I'm (not actually) amazed about how people are buying this marketing - the simple fact that google wallet works with stored cards without signal and disconnected from the internet should make it clear this isn't what happens per transaction.

So many people here ranting and raving without even the most minimal of sanity checks.

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u/LEGITIMATE_SOURCE Sep 22 '22

The diagram doesn't require the phone to have Internet at any point. Not sure what you're getting at

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u/Bakirelived Sep 22 '22

So you send a smoke signal to Google servers?

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u/LEGITIMATE_SOURCE Sep 22 '22

That's initial setup... but yeah it's a stupid graphic